“SAS leadership in text analytics is based on our unrelenting focus on listening to our customer’s needs and providing the means to drive tangible business success from deep insight into their fast-growing volumes of text data,” said Fiona McNeill, SAS Global Technology Marketing Manager. “Many of our customers are dealing with big data, and increasingly that data includes unstructured or text data.”

She noted that SAS will introduce several new products with text analytics in 2014. The first example of this was the launch of SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop, which is specifically designed for that increasingly popular big data architecture. Significant extensions to SAS Contextual Analysis are planned for later this year.

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